#Good omens ending

[andsomemaniacgotridofthewheel]

I think at least 75% of Good Omens season 3 (ending) angst would simply evaporate if people just managed to remember that Good Omens is a comedy.

Not a drama, not a tragedy, not a tragic-comedy, not a social commentary, not a thriller or a mystery or a serious fantasy adventure, but a (fantasy) comedy.

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

[2bearsinatrenchcoat]

just a reminder:

“and we’ve spent our existence pretending that we aren’t”

that’s it! :)

[ruchirarambles7]

Jane Austen. She had balls.

[miss-americanbi]

i find the fact that some people think aziraphale slipped crowley tongue during their kiss absolutely hilarious. my brothers in chirst he can’t even speak the french language do you really think he can french kiss???

[cillacantstudysosheshere]

I just saw a good omens analysis that made me think. So after the confession Crowley doesn't just leave, he stays outside the bookshop and outside the Bentley to look at Aziraphale leaving because he wants to see him getting away to fully believe what is happening and to show Aziraphale what he is losing right? WRONG

You see, we have seen Crowley getting upset a bunch of times both in season 1 and 2, and what does he do when he's upset? He leaves

We can go off together scene in season 1, he gets upset with Aziraphale and he leaves

I'm getting my stuff and I'm leaving scene in season 1, he gets in his Bentley and leaves

He finds out about Gabriel, he gets very upset and leaves

At the end of season 2 he's the most upset and hurt he's ever been so it would make sense for him to leave, to run in a way, to avoid further suffering. After all Crowley has always done this, he drinks to avoid suffering for example...so why does he stand there?...but then Aziraphale turns and looks at him and suddenly it's clear. In a way yes, Crowley is there because he is, to quote the book, an optimist and some part of him wanted to believe that Aziraphale could have changed his mind at the last second but I think it goes deeper than that.

He is not there to make Aziraphale question his decision, because he already tried that...he is there to reassure him, he is there because he wants him to know that when heaven will eventually turn out to be far from good he will be there for Aziraphale. He hates to see him go, and he hates to basically see what has happened to him happening to Aziraphale...but he can't help but to love him, to be there for him and to forgive his naivety because ultimately that's also what he loves him for.

Do you really think that after denying himself Aziraphale for 6000 years he could hate him for him not wanting to run away together? Crowley knows he goes too fast for Aziraphale and most of all, even though he doesn't respect heaven, he respects Aziraphale. He would never force him to do something he doesn't want to do, he loves him too much to do that. That is why the kiss was as powerful as it was, because for the first time Crowley was, in a way, selfish. Even though they both love each other and they both want each other, the kiss clearly showed who was ready for it and who was not. Crowley did that as a last resort because he knows deep down that Aziraphale wants him as well, but he also knew it was not the right time. The man was desperate and tired of heaven taking Aziraphale away from him...but even after all of that he stands there because he will always be there for Aziraphale no matter what. That hint of doubt in Aziraphale's eyes when he turns around to look at him just before leaving is all he needs because he knows him, and has seen this happening before...and even though he's hurt, he would never leave Aziraphale. Imagine the scene without Crowley: Aziraphale looks back and he doesn't see him and probably thinks "he left me, I made the right decision"...but no, he sees Crowley, standing there, not leaving even in that moment and that is what will, ultimately, bring Aziraphale back.

How? Well, we will have to wait and see I guess

[theelastword]

*SPOILERS AHEAD*

So I’ve been seeing a lot of people talk about how big of a mistake Aziraphale made in the finale and how badly they feel for Crowley (instead of feeling bad for BOTH of them). And honestly? I don’t understand the perspective that Crowley getting his heart broken in episode 6 has to mean that Aziraphale was totally naive and wrong and that it’ll take Crowley a lot of time to forgive him, or that Aziraphale’s ending in season 2 wasn’t just as heartbreaking as Crowley’s.

Think about everything we know about Aziraphale, who has never once been power-hungry and— following season 1— no longer cares what Heaven thinks (he even told the Metratron that he didn’t want to go back to Heaven when first approached). Aziraphale only left because he sees angels like Muriel, who definitively have good in them despite everything, or even Gabriel who somehow figured out how to fall in love and find something that mattered more to him than the supposed ‘morality’ of Heaven. Aziraphale sees that spark, that potential of Heaven to be turned into what it should have always been, and he thinks that he can do it because he’s seen proof of angels who can get away from Heaven’s influence, a list that includes himself.

Not to mention THAT look he gave Metatron after he brought up the Second Coming, a look that (at least from where I’m sitting) was a definite steeling of nerves and his own way of saying “Okay, time to take this thing down from the inside”. He was NOT saying that Crowley should reform himself for Heaven, or even that they should go back because he missed Heaven. He was asking Crowley to go with him because he loves him and wants him by his side— and because he knows that Crowley has experience in being there for angels who slowly deviate from Heaven.

Aziraphale wants what he’s always wanted— to keep helping everyone he possibly can, without stopping to do what he really wants and just stay in his beloved bookshop with the love of his life. Because he never prioritizes what it is he wants when he could be helping others instead. That’s just who he is, which is what makes him so selfless and wonderful but also so sad in that he never just…lets himself be happy. And the Crowley that we all know would never hate or have lingering fury toward him for that. What Aziraphale is doing, although heartbreaking to people like me who just want the Husbands to have their little cottage in the South Downs, is actually really brave, AND just as worthy of the sympathy and heartbreak that many fans are feeling for Crowley.

EDIT: Also, as sad/problematic it may be to abandon your life and partner, it’s just as problematic to turn a blind eye to the oppression and injustice of Heaven that, by all means, you have the ability and voice to try to do something about in pursuit of prioritizing what you want. So if we’re going to be mad at Aziraphale, we have to be mad at Crowley, too (and I’ll be disappointed if hypothetical-season-3 paints the narrative that Aziraphale is the only one in the wrong here). Personally, I’m all for not being mad at anybody. I completely understand both of their choices, and I just want them to reconcile and be compassionate to what the other is going through.

[ineffably-poetic]

i need good omens to end with aziraphale and crowley moving into a cottage together as husbands and crowley gardening and aziraphale making pies and other baked goods while collecting books and the them visiting to help out with the garden

i need this

[nicolegmattos]

Book Crowley and Aziraphale watch The Final Fifteen:

(Thank you for the idea @sapphic-bats! This is kind of a part 2 so here’s the link to part 1)

Aziraphale: Ok, so where do we stopped?

Crowley: I think there’s only fifteen minutes left. I heard that people call it The Final Fifteen.

Aziraphale: Must be important.

Crowley: *pressing play* I really don’t know why there’s a need for the capital letter. They’re just fifteen minutes. What could be so important about fifteen minutes?

After some time…

*Crowley puts on his sunglasses*

Aziraphale: Are you crying, my dear?

Crowley: No.

Aziraphale:

Crowley:

Aziraphale:

Crowley: Maybe.

Aziraphale: *hugging him* Awww, don’t worry. I’d never leave you.

Crowley: If you ever say that to me, I’ll… I won’t be responsible for my actions.

Aziraphale: *taking off his glasses* It’s alright. You’re my friend. I’d forgive you no matter what.

Crowley:

Aziraphale:

Crowley:

Aziraphale: Crowley…

Crowley: Leave.

Aziraphale: What?

Crowley: Leave!

Aziraphale: But…

Crowley: *slamming the door* Out!

Aziraphale: *through the keyhole* Crowley, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean it like that.

Crowley: And don’t ever come back!

[viktorisstupid]

YALL NEED TO LEAVE NEIL ALONE 😭😭😭

Trust that he and Terry wrote an ending they're happy with, even if it's not the ending WE want, it's not our ending to tell. It's a story that was written between two best friends, and I think it's only fair Neil tells it the way he and Terry intended it to be told.

Aka calm your tits this poor man I already sick of us.

[aaronontherun]

Okay, hear me out... They love each other in such a casual way that neither of them has ever felt the need to bring it up to the other, but somehow, over time that security in their love for each other must have developed. There must have been different stages. My heart breaks for an Aziraphale wondering whether he said something funny or isn't cool enough. Or for a Crowley wondering if he has offended his angel or didn't show enough care when Aziraphale dropped an egg roll that one time and was very upset about it.

And I think that sense of security developed after Crowley's fall. You don't go through something like this together, sticking with one another without eliminating all the doubt of the other one liking you.

Actions are so much stronger than words, especially in friendships or relationships. And I think for neither of them this was a conscious process.

Hence Crowley being absolutely floored when Nina and Maggie show up and give him a little push in that direction. And even though they have both known it for millions of years, putting it into words makes it tangible.

So in S2 we got 3 very different types of love stories, that also all intertwine somehow.

Gabriel and Beelzebub who cannot be together because of obvious reasons, but decide to ditch the norms and get punished for it, but finding their happy end.

Maggie and Nina where one of them knows they're in love and the other one doesn't and that evolves over time leading to Nina getting out of an abusive relationship and them finding their happy end.

And Aziraphale and Crowley, who are very much in love, but also aren't allowed to by their respective head offices AND one of them still has a toxic relationship (with heaven).

Ahem, well, this little rambling has gone off the rails pretty quickly...

But what I would LOVE to see in S3 is Crowley's fall and the impact on their relationship, Aziraphale getting out of that toxic relationship and them finding their version of a happy ending.

[akasketchy]

Tf do you want?!

[ladybracknellssherry]

Okay so I got a clip w audio of the final 15 Az eyebrow thing I was talking about. The quality is worse than garbage and idk someone is going to have to explain to me how to actually get clips of things bc I’m useless and prime locks out screen recording. If someone can get a better quality and share it’d make me so happy.

I put it under the cut because it's about 2 seconds and watching that flash on a loop against your will is nightmarish.

For the sake of the "somehow Az and Crowley were communicating subversively to each other / Az was trying to communicate something to Crowley" theory...

This definitely gives "Az is trying to eyebrow talk to Crowley." If you want to believe that. Looking out the window from where he's standing in the direction of where Crowley would be / is when he's fashion statue-ing on the Bentley at the end. What's Az trying to eyebrow talk about? Any number of mysterious things. Otherwise he’s just simply making sad eyebrows. Az is obviously stressing and sad and such. But I’m hooked on this right now and me being me am probably looking way too deep.

I never thought anything of it until I realized the soundtrack makes a point of it. "Hey check out these eyebrows - we're going to give a piano trill to emphasize it." Why? Mood? Probably. It just feels ... odd.

Say all you want about how GO would avoid doing something that can give Clues or hints to interpret the massive mysterious cliffhanger of S2E6 ... But they gave a mountain of clues to the body/appearance swap in S1E6 ... All of the time fuckery in S2 and chiastic structure and foreshadowing and parallels etc etc all give Clue. And of course there's the hidden easter eggish fact that Nightingale played in its entirety matches up perfectly with the brief snippet in the Bentley to the final shot in the credits. The final piano trill and that last smile in the elevator that looks a touch unhinged unless you have Nightingale playing. These two bits are the most simultaneously subtle/surreptitious/inscrutable yet very clearly emphasized expressions incorporated into the soundtrack that I've noticed in all of S2. There are other matches. But those are readily legible compared to these.

So, yeah. The eyebrow flex + piano pointing it out/emphasizing it is all more than a bit weird to me. It looks like it could very likely be communicatory. As if asking/saying "all good? all clear?" "all good here. all clear here." "you do the thing?" "now's a good time to do the thing" "understood" etc etc. Reminiscent enough of "Trust me" which was nearly invisible.

Other people have pointed out - what if he's not just looking out the window in those last few glances because he's looking at Crowley trying to make up his mind? What if he's stalling and making sure Crowley is there and giving him a signal? Would might to tie into the time-stop theory which would help to explain that FCKNGK CLOCK. That clock that keeps me up at night.

Why? I don't know why. Does it make much sense? I don't really think so. It could just be a brief sad eyebrow furrow. I'll survive if that's the case. I just can't get my brain to stop thinking about it. It feels so weird to me.

[kaz-of-crows]

alright here’s my controversial opinion no one asked for: the ending of good omens season 2 was actually really good and it feels like a solid ending. i know they’re working on getting season 3 approved but there’s just something so final about aziraphale being the one to leave crowley

[miss-americanbi]

new hozier drop was written for ineffable divorce crowley and ineffable divorce crowley only thanks

[elusiveangel-fic]

WHAT. THE FUCK. WAS THAT, GOOD OMENS 2.

WHAT THE ABSOLUTE FUCK WAS THAT.

screaming crying throwing up I FUCKING CANT